Alice B. reviewed The word book: Based on the American heritage dictionary on + 3561 more book reviews
A handy, easy to use guide for everyone who writes, dictates, consults, transcribes or checks others writing. This is a great little book. Spell check does not catch everything.Featuring:
More than 40,000 words spelled and divided.
Lists of sound alike words and words frequently confused or misspelled with brief identifying definitions to enable the reader to choose the best of all possible words.
A guide to plurals
A guide to spelling
A sound map for poor spellers
Pronunciation stresses shown for each word.
Inflected forms, variants and irregular plurals
A list of Commonly used abbreviations
Proofreaders symbols
A table of weights and measures
A guide to the metric system
More than 40,000 words spelled and divided.
Lists of sound alike words and words frequently confused or misspelled with brief identifying definitions to enable the reader to choose the best of all possible words.
A guide to plurals
A guide to spelling
A sound map for poor spellers
Pronunciation stresses shown for each word.
Inflected forms, variants and irregular plurals
A list of Commonly used abbreviations
Proofreaders symbols
A table of weights and measures
A guide to the metric system
